Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903)
Autore di The Cotton Kingdom
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: 1893 print (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-36895)
Serie
Opere di Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society: (Library of America #270) (1664) 92 copie
Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks (The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted) (2015) 15 copie
Hospital Transports: A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick And Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer… (2005) 10 copie
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Public Parks, Parkways, and Park Systems (1997) 9 copie
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: Defending the Union: The Civil War and the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1861–1863 (1986) 8 copie
Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates (The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted) (2020) 8 copie
Selections from The Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmsted (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) (2014) 7 copie
Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: A traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave… (1862) 2 copie
A Journey Through Texas 2 copie
Opere correlate
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Collaboratore — 93 copie
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 25 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Data di nascita
- 1822-04-25
- Data di morte
- 1903-08-28
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
New York, New York, USA
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- Phillips Academy (1838)
- Attività lavorative
- seaman
merchant
journalist
landscape architect
conservationist - Relazioni
- Olmsted, Frederick, Jr. (son)
Olmsted, John Charles (son)
Burnham, Daniel (friend)
Downing, Andrew Jackson (business partner)
Vaux, Calvert (business partner) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1918])
United States Sanitary Commision ( [1861])
Union League Club of New York
The Nation
Sons of the American Revolution
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (mostra tutto 8)
Olmsted, Vaux and Company
American Society of Landscape Architects
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- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
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- Popolarità
- #30,227
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 93
- Lingue
- 1
Proud Texans: beware that the brothers, despite their essentially positive and energetic spirit, were annoyed at much of what they saw, ate and endured, but they looked for accomplishment and potential everywhere, and the account is not without humor. And they found much to like, particularly traveling west into hill country, with its German immigrants and settlements, and reaching prairies yet further west.
Not highest rated only because it incorporates particulars on the economics of agriculture and commodities like cotton and slaves, and also some lobbying against slavery, however timely and persuasive in 1854 (and responsive to their commission from the New York [Daily] Times).
The Olmsteds were in Texas on horseback midwinter into late spring. They didn't get far north (above about 32º latitude, roughly Nacogdoches) or far west (past about 24º longitude, roughly Eagle Pass and today's San Angelo). But continuing west risked a bad death on the dry and mostly unpopulated Texas plains. They do relate some contemporary observations of others who had traveled further west, much of that occupied or menaced by native Americans, still a threat even where the brothers ventured. They describe some of southwestern Louisiana from the journey back home. The book has a good map.
The Olmsted brothers, in their 30's, one (John) facing death from tuberculosis, were well and widely educated and travelled as well as practical and unpretentious, and their frank perspective as curious and observant visitors over a large area of early Texas is surely unique and valuable. Frank went on to become something of a landscape architect and assisted in the design of New York City's Central Park, among many parks and commissions.
Larry McMurtry's introduction mentions only two other previous accounts, Bartlett's "Personal Narrative" (1854) and Kendall's "Santa Fe Expedition" (1844), which might compete with this for the attention of today's reader.… (altro)